I'm traveling right now and reading a book called The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto; let's make this week's theme also about travel.
Vacation shots, exotic shots, en route shots, everyday-somewhere-else shots: show us a travel shot that's personally meaningful. For this contest I'll be looking beyond the clichéd, famous-monument takes; to be clear, there's nothing wrong with making your version of the Grand Canyon, or Louvre, or Manchu Picchu shot ... but you can ask yourself: is your take better than a postcard? It's hard to compete with postcard shots on the level of technical proficiency; but when a picture is personally resonant, well, the sky's the limit.
It's also harder to convey to someone else something personally meaningful when they don't have all the knowledge or backstory of what made the picture meaningful. Try to look at your candidate picture with another's eyes: can someone else see (a little) of what I know is interesting?
But of course, don't overthink it; have fun, and I look forward to seeing the pictures; travel can be so inspiring!
As always, standard rules apply:
Vacation shots, exotic shots, en route shots, everyday-somewhere-else shots: show us a travel shot that's personally meaningful. For this contest I'll be looking beyond the clichéd, famous-monument takes; to be clear, there's nothing wrong with making your version of the Grand Canyon, or Louvre, or Manchu Picchu shot ... but you can ask yourself: is your take better than a postcard? It's hard to compete with postcard shots on the level of technical proficiency; but when a picture is personally resonant, well, the sky's the limit.
It's also harder to convey to someone else something personally meaningful when they don't have all the knowledge or backstory of what made the picture meaningful. Try to look at your candidate picture with another's eyes: can someone else see (a little) of what I know is interesting?
But of course, don't overthink it; have fun, and I look forward to seeing the pictures; travel can be so inspiring!
As always, standard rules apply:
- The photographs must be your own work
- You may only submit one photo per contest.
- No commenting or liking photos until after the judging has taken place.
- This contest runs for about a week, starting now.
- At the end of the competition, the judge (last week's winner) will choose a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place photo, providing as much feedback as possible.
- The 1st place winner will start a new thread here with the topic/theme of their choice, and act as the judge for that contest. (Winner has 48 hours to create new theme, after that it defers to 2nd place).
- Be sure to update the Contest Master List as soon as you post a new theme.
- Contest ends January 6, 7:00 PM EST; comments thereafter, jet-lag permitting.
